# Global Cultures (GLBLCLT) courses

UC Irvine · 2026-2027 Catalog · 7 courses

Source: https://catalogue.uci.edu/allcourses/glblclt/

"Offered" lists sections in this catalog year's class schedules: Fall 2026.

### GLBLCLT 7 — Social Media and Social Change

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- (IV and (VII or VIII))

Explores social media’s role in activism, identity formation, and global movements. Students analyze digital campaigns, online rhetoric, and cultural impacts while integrating theoretical perspectives with real-world case studies to develop critical media literacy and digital engagement skills.

### GLBLCLT 11 — Digital Literacies

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- (II and (VII or VIII))

Examines digital literacy through the lens of the humanities, digital storytelling, and emerging technologies. Explores multimodal composition, digital ethics, and online engagement while analyzing and creating digital narratives to navigate contemporary media and information ecosystems critically.

### GLBLCLT 103A — Global Cultures I 

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

Introduction to the processes by which economies, cultural practices, national entities, groups, individuals, and personal identities have undergone globalization. General background and methodological tools for understanding problems and processes of globalization.

### GLBLCLT 103B — Global Cultures II 

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 1 section (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/glblclt.md)
- Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

Introduction to the processes by which economies, cultural practices, national entities, groups, individuals, and personal identities have undergone globalization. Explores how globalization has manifested itself in specific topics, periods, or societies.

### GLBLCLT 105 — Language Origins: Evolution, Genetics, and the Brain

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Same as LSCI 175, ANTHRO 152A, HISTORY 135G

Examines how human language(s) may have originated. Studies pertinent techniques (reconstruction) and addresses related questions, including is our language faculty inborn (i.e., genetically encoded)? Can brain imaging and population genetics research help to unlock this mystery of human evolution?

### GLBLCLT 191 — Senior Seminar:Topics in Global Cultures

- **Units:** 4
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026 schedule
- Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

Students explore a topic(s) concerning processes and/or problems of globalization from an interdisciplinary perspective and build on their critical and analytical skills when investigating cultural and other phenomena that cut across national borders. Research assignments, class presentations, final seminar paper.

### GLBLCLT 199 — Independent Study

- **Units:** 1-4
- **Offered:** Fall 2026, 2 sections (/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/glblclt.md)
- Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times

Directed reading and research in consultation with a faculty advisor. Substantial written work required.